Buddhism through American Women's Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism through American Women's Eyes write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 2012-08-12. Buddhism through American Women's Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Buddha's path to human transformation declares women and men equally capable of spiritual realization, yet throughout history most exemplars of this tradition have been men. Now, as Buddhism is transmitted to the West, women are playing a major role in its adaptation and development. The conversation presented here takes place among experienced practitioners from many Buddhist traditions who share their thoughts on the Buddhist outlook, its practical application in everyday life, and the challenges of practicing Buddhism in the Western world. Thirteen women contribute a wealth of thought-provoking material on topics such as bringing Dharma into relationships, dealing with stress, Buddhism and the Twelve Steps, mothering and meditation, the monastic experience, and forging a kind heart in an age of alienation.
Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes
Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1995. Buddhism Through American Women's Eyes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a refreshing, experientially based and enrichng contribution of American women to Buddhism in the West. Thubten Chodron, author
Sisters in Solitude
Sisters in Solitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sisters in Solitude write by Karma Lekshe Tsomo. This book was released on 1996-11-01. Sisters in Solitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study is an investigation of the moral precepts and codes of everyday conduct by which ordained women regulated their lives. It takes as its basis the Bhikṣuṇī Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Dharmagupta school, preserved in Chinese translation, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda school, preserved in Tibetan translation. For over two thousand years, Buddhist nuns have quietly embodied specific moral and spiritual values on their path to enlightenment. Contemplative communities offered women both an alternative lifestyle and an avenue for education. Numbering as many as one million at certain periods of history, they have exerted powerful, if often unacknowledged, influence on Asian societies. Sisters in Solitude documents the earliest recorded system of ethics formulated especially for women and presents the first English translations of the original texts. An essential sourcebook for studies on women's religious history and feminist ethics, it details the monastic guidelines that link Buddhist nuns of the different traditions. The texts it contains unite women of many cultures.
Meetings with Remarkable Women
Meetings with Remarkable Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meetings with Remarkable Women write by Lenore Friedman. This book was released on 1987. Meetings with Remarkable Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book celebrates the flowering of women teachers in American Buddhism. Lenore Friedman has profiled some of the remarkable women who have been teaching Buddhism in the United States. The seventeen women she writes about vary in background, personality, and form of teaching. Some of them have maintained close ties with their inherited tradition while infusing it with a warmth and softness closer to their own nature. Others have sloughed off inherited forms and are finding new ways of practicing and transmitting the dharma that are more compatible with Western experience. Together they represent the growing trend in American Buddhism that will surely affect the development of Buddhism in the West for years to come.
Turning The Wheel
Turning The Wheel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Turning The Wheel write by Sandy Boucher. This book was released on 1993-10-01. Turning The Wheel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Boucher celebrates the many contributions of women to American Buddhism and provides an intimate look at the lives of women who are the teachers, scholars, nuns, and followers of a newly evolving Buddhist practice in this country. "A thought-provoking examination".--Victoria Scott, San Francisco Chronicle. Photos.
